Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin has worked closely with former NFL head coach and current analyst Tony Dungy, with Tomlin coaching under Dungy in Tampa Bay in 2001, and the two men have a close relationship. Dungy also used to play for the Steelers and was the team’s defensive coordinator from 1984-1988, so he’s quite familiar with how Pittsburgh conducts business. On NBC’s pregame show before Pittsburgh’s Week 16 matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals, Dungy said that Mike Tomlin doesn’t want to leave the team, and plans on coming back and figuring out the team’s problems.
He pushed back on fellow analyst Rodney Harrison, who said if he was Tomlin, he wasn’t sure he would want to come back.